The lights dimmed and a group started to play on a small stage. I had to turn sideways on to Polly to be able to watch. They where quite good and the ...ead singer was a very sexy looking girl in a mini dress with a very low top. She was showing a lot of cleavage and a lot of leg, so my eyes where riveted to the stage.I'd subconsciously noticed that the guys at our table where coming and going. I really didn't think much of it, just supposed they were going to the toilet or to the bar for drinks.. He reached into the bed of the truck picked something up and took the two items into the house. I gently wiped the tears from Shans face and asked her if she were OK. A very soft, Yes, passed her lips. Help me get this fucking thing out of me. Do you want me to jerk it out or do you want to try to ease it out. I think I will try to back slowly off of it slowly. If you can hold it and pull it firmly but very slowly toward the dash I will try to push off of it. I clasp the metal rod and gently. Luckily the next day, I was back to riding horses.The rest of the summer, I would arrive at the stables, get on the horse that I was assigned to for the day, then I would ride around the ranch for a few hours. Whenever I got bored, I'd swim at the lake while the horse would graze. Such a hard-humbling job. Did I forget to mention the part about banging the guy's daughter? Yeah, there was that perk too.The real reason for the job was to pay for the entire year of insurance on my car. The car. Me, Kara Sevinsky, I was meant to play the violin.I was a good student of academics, too, mind you. Along with the grey eyes, something else came out of the genetic cocktail that created me: brains. I'm adept. Polymathic. I have favorites subjects, for sure, but NO subject has been difficult. That's nice in one way. I can let my mind wander. I can read. I can play music.By the time I reached my middle teen years, we were in a big house, commensurate with my Dad's status as a premier ambulance.